The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-05-25
LOCAL AND MISCELLANEOUS.

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with typhoid fever at her home.
Three burials in one day is rather
an unusual occurrence for Tionesta,
yet that happened here last Sabbath.
Last week was an exciting one
for Tionesta, but everything has sub
sided into the usual quietude and sub.
Unity.
Sheriff Agnew, accompanied by
J. F. Proper and j. Z. Welch, depart.
for Allegheny on Monday having in
charge the three prisoners, Wilson,
Haggerty and Barber,
-'Dolph Heibel stopped few hours
in town to-day. He is selling an A 1
cigar, which is put up at his factory
in Warren. Dolph is a practical cigar
maker himself, and it is always safe to
invest in his goods.
Those candidates who have not
yet ordered their tickets for the ensu.
ing primary elections should do so at
once. The same rules will govern the
matter of ticket printing as is applied
to announcements cash with the or.
der, invariably.
Rob. Hoskins, of the Bathgate
| Cd. To- Sentinel, gets off the following
on himself, upon which we congratu-
late him: "A good sized boy was
found at the residence of the editor on
Saturday morning; for further par.
ticuiars ask DR.. Sutton"
We are pleased to state that the
reported death of Mr.. j. B. Pearsall
on the prairie near South Pueblo, Col
orado, is unfoIDded, and that he has
turned up alive and quite well, as will
be observed by card of thanks from
his wife published in this issue.
1t was just three weeks last night
that the desperadoes made their dar-
ing attempt to rob the Wagner house.
hold, and to day they languish in the
solitude of Riverside PenitenLiary,
under ten year sentence. Forest
county justice is both swift and terrible.
! MIS-. Pownell, wife of Mr.. Thomas
Pownell of Hickory township, died
on Sunday morning last. We are
without particulars as to the cause of
death. She was aged in the neigh.
borhood of sixty years. Her husband,
a son and three daughters survive to
mourn her death.
"A delightful, refreshing and much
needed shower of rain visited this
section Monday night, and continued
at intervals through yesterday. 1t
came none too soon, for the ground
was almost parched, and forest fires
were raging on all sides, destroying
everything in their wake except, per.
haps, rattlesnakes.
BY reference to the announce.
ment column it will be observed that
Mr.. john Osgood has withdrawn his
name as Republican candidate fol
Sheriff. In doing so Mr.. Osgood wish.
es to assure his friends that it is done
for purely personal reasons, believing
it would be Of too much disadvantage
to him in his business to make a can
vass at this time.
The recent legislature passed 6
law repeating the scalp law except al
to wolves and wildcats. The Govern
or has signed the bill, and no more
bounty certificates should be issued by
justices, except on wildcats and wolves
because the treasurers will not be al
lowed to pay bounties on any bu
these, SO far as our county is con
cerned we, would liked to have had tn,
law remain as it was, but bordering
counties raised such howl about th'
expense to which they were subjected
that its repeal was inevitable, anC
some very good legislators would hay,
:, been paralyzed had they returned t.
(. their constituents without securing thr
repeal of of this law. The bounty OF
# foxes should be restored, and perhap
! will be in two years.